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About 13 kilometres south of Tiananmen Square is Nanyuan (which means ‘south garden’ in Chinese). It was used as a military training ground by the ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) loves the political ritualism in military parades. And messages were definitely not going to go amiss this week as ...
“We penetrated deeper and deeper,” Charles Marlow recollects of a journey into Africa. The fictional sailor appears in Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novel ...
In 2014 China’s State Council set itself a target to promote ‘social credit’ rating systems across the nation. Different local governments and ...
The way that Donald Trump tells it, China’s manufacturing sector is close to collapse, fatally wounded by Washington’s tariffs on Chinese ...
Restraint and moderation were two characteristics that came instinctively to Thomas Cook. The Victorian-era businessman built his travel empire on the ...
Consumer products tend to bank on publicity. But not Sriracha. For 40 years, the chilli-garlic paste’s maker Huy Fong has never paid a penny for ...
Steel has often been a symbol of might in modern China. The country’s final liberation in the Second World War was marked by the recapture of the ...
The history of maths scholarship in China is illustrious, dating back to the second millennium BC, when bamboo rods were arranged to represent the ...
Last month 620,000 poorer families in China were given a 32-inch TV. The gesture undoubtedly made many of them happy. But that wasn’t the principal ...
Chateau Lafite has long been one of the most faked wines in China. The Bordeaux first growth was never happy about this dubious honour, but its ...
Former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson discusses his involvement in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum which will be held in Beijing late next month. ...
Food delivery people are a feature of modern life in China. Few street scenes are complete without a courier whizzing past on an electric bike. At ...